Recently John Winston Howard spoke to the Lowy Institute, defending his government’s decision to take Australia to war in Iraq in 2003. This against massive national and international protests against the US-led invasion of the time, which has since proven to have been based on – at the minimum – poor intelligence. At worst, a lie perpetrated for the purposes of regime change in direct contravention of UN Charter Chapter VII. In other words, an international crime. Today we see yet another retired public servant of that era coming out with her own definitive claims that Howard lied to the […]

“Only when we get through
the next six, 12 months or
whatever period of time it
takes will we be in a
position to make any
reasonable and responsible
judgement about whether
the United States, Britain
or anyone else is in a
position to withdraw,”PM
’standing up for
Australia’ in
criticising Obama.
13/02/2007. ABC News
Online (via Whaling
activists push on after ship
crash. 13/02/2007. ABC
News Online)